English Dictionary: weasel-worded |
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wassailer
n 1: someone who enjoys riotous drinking [syn: {wassailer},
{carouser}]
2: someone who proposes a toast; someone who drinks to the
health of success of someone or some venture [syn: {toaster},
{wassailer}]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: |
- weasel word
- n
- an equivocal qualification; a word used to avoid making an
outright assertion
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: |
- weasel-worded
- adj
- evasively worded in order to avoid an unqualified
statement
Synonym(s): hedged, weasel-worded
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: |
- wiggle room
- n
- flexibility of interpretation or of options; "the request
left some wiggle room for future restructuring"
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: |
- wiggler
- n
- one who can't stay still (especially a child); "the toddler
was a real wiggler on plane trips"
Synonym(s): wiggler, wriggler, squirmer
- larva of a mosquito
Synonym(s): wiggler, wriggler
- terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers
Synonym(s): earthworm, angleworm, fishworm, fishing worm, wiggler, nightwalker, nightcrawler, crawler, dew worm, red worm
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
Wassailer \Was"sail*er\, n.
One who drinks wassail; one who engages in festivity,
especially in drinking; a reveler.
The rudeness and swilled insolence Of such late
wassailers. --Milton.
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
Weakly \Weak"ly\, a. [Compar. {Weaklier}; superl. {Weakliest}.]
Not strong of constitution; infirm; feeble; as, a weakly
woman; a man of a weakly constitution.
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
Wiggler \Wig"gler\, n. (Zo[94]l.)
The young, either larva or pupa, of the mosquito; -- called
also {wiggletail}.
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